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Salvador Dalí.
The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
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1958 - 1959.
Oil on Canvas, 410 × 284 cm.
Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, USA.
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The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is the name of a painting by artist Salvador Dalí, begun in 1958 and finished in 1959.
It is a huge canvas one in a series of large paintings Dalí did during this era.
The work was commissioned by United States millionaire industrialists, philanthropists and collectors of Dalí's works
A. Reynolds Morse & Eleanor R. Morse to be hung in the lobby of their business office near Columbus Circle in New York City.
As the title implies, the painting deals with Christopher Columbus's first landing in the New World, but it depicts the event metaphorically
rather than aiming at historical accuracy. Columbus is depicted not as a middle-aged mariner, but as an adolescent boy in a classical robe to
symbolize America as a young continent with its best years ahead of it.
Dalí, in a period of intense interest in Roman Catholic mysticism at the time, symbolically portrayed Columbus bringing Christianity
and the true church to a new world as a great and holy accomplishment.
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